The impact of advanced AI systems on democracy.

IF 15.9 1区心理学 Q1 MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES

Nature Human Behaviour Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI:10.1038/s41562-025-02309-z

Christopher Summerfield,Lisa P Argyle,Michiel Bakker,Teddy Collins,Esin Durmus,Tyna Eloundou,Iason Gabriel,Deep Ganguli,Kobi Hackenburg,Gillian K Hadfield,Luke Hewitt,Saffron Huang,Hélène Landemore,Nahema Marchal,Aviv Ovadya,Ariel Procaccia,Mathias Risse,Bruce Schneier,Elizabeth Seger,Divya Siddarth,Henrik Skaug Sætra,Michael Henry Tessler,Matthew Botvinick

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Advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems capable of generating humanlike text and multimodal content are now widely available. Here we ask what impact this will have on the democratic process. We consider the consequences of AI for citizens' ability to make educated and competent choices about political representatives and issues (epistemic impacts). We explore how AI might be used to destabilize or support the mechanisms, including elections, by which democracy is implemented (material impacts). Finally, we discuss whether AI will strengthen or weaken the principles on which democracy is based (foundational impacts). The arrival of new AI systems clearly poses substantial challenges for democracy. However, we argue that AI systems also offer new opportunities to educate and learn from citizens, strengthen public discourse, help people to find common ground, and reimagine how democracies might work better.

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先进的人工智能系统对民主的影响。

能够生成类人文本和多模态内容的先进人工智能（AI）系统现已广泛使用。我们要问的是，这将对民主进程产生什么影响。我们考虑了人工智能对公民就政治代表和问题做出明智和称职选择的能力的影响（认知影响）。我们探讨了人工智能如何被用来破坏或支持民主实施的机制，包括选举（物质影响）。最后，我们讨论了人工智能是否会加强或削弱民主所基于的原则（基础性影响）。新人工智能系统的到来显然对民主构成了重大挑战。然而，我们认为人工智能系统也提供了新的机会来教育和向公民学习，加强公共话语，帮助人们找到共同点，并重新设想民主如何更好地运作。

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Nature Human Behaviour Psychology-Social Psychology

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227

期刊介绍： Nature Human Behaviour is a journal that focuses on publishing research of outstanding significance into any aspect of human behavior.The research can cover various areas such as psychological, biological, and social bases of human behavior.It also includes the study of origins, development, and disorders related to human behavior.The primary aim of the journal is to increase the visibility of research in the field and enhance its societal reach and impact.